If you’ve read the news lately, whether you are on the left or the right, you will notice there is a strange lack of forgiveness for sins of the past, for disagreeable opinions or different political leanings. I can tell you why it is strange that you wouldn’t forgive someone for sins of the past, besides the fact that it is a very puritan way of thinking, and the growing effect of being unforgiving but it is most clearly illustrated in Virginia this month.

There is no doubt that an unpopular opinion voiced by the Virginia Governor Northam about a post birth abortion spurred an investigation into his past. The reason there is so much speculation and gossip about which side of the aisle started this toxic search into someone’s past (with an intent to destroy their future) is the contagion of unforgiveness has spread so widely that there is no one who can say “this only happens on the right” or “this only happens on the left.” It has now become a cultural norm. What started with the governor spread to the lieutenant governor with a #metoo allegation that is at least more corroborated than the Kavanaugh allegations. But it didn’t stop there, it spread to yet another Democrat in the line of Govenorship.

Every allegation, every true fact, comes to light with the same twitter scrutiny as Kevin Hart’s “homophobic” tweets. Every apology is swept aside, sincere or insincere, and futures are ruined.

You don’t know where the lines are being drawn, because they are constantly being redrawn (see Virginia Governor news of the day), and you don’t know when the line will hit you. You can’t even say, as in the case of the MAGA boys, that it will happen to you because of something you did. You might just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.